MS RFC 10: Voting results...

[Steve Lime]

Hi folks: Well, the vote to join the OSG Foundation has ended in a  landslide- 74 in favor with 1 (a user
curiously named JackD) dissenter. With that, RFC 10 passes and the  MapServer Project can proceed
and join the foundation.  How that happens is still a bit of a mystery. The interim foundation board is
working to develop the formal process. To be sure, it will involve  combing over the MapServer codebase
to address any potential intellectual property or copyright issues.

So what does this mean for MapServer users? For the most part it will be business as usual. The same
folks that have been working on the MapServer project will continue to do so. The Technical Steering
Committee will remain intact and continue to oversee software development.

In the short term you  may start to see project infrastructure (bug reporting, mailing lists, etc...) move
from University to Foundation servers.

In the long term we hope you will continue to see MapServer flourish and benefit from living alongside
other great Open Source projects.

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Steve
Chair, MTSC